Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Powers who have Quarreled much over next-to-nothing moved rapidly to adjust their differences last week. At Rome, Signor Benito Mussolini said: "I believe that a full, cordial and lasting understanding between France and Italy is possible and indeed, necessary. . . . When diplomacy has completed the preliminary work, a meeting between the French and Italian Foreign Ministers* will be logical." Thus he replied to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France who recently declared: "I would meet him [Mussolini] at any time without displeasure." (TIME, Dec. 12). As an earnest that these sentiments are sincere, the French Government suppressed, last...
...Christmas communiqué lay ready for signing, last week, on the massive desk of Signor Benito Mussolini. With logic, reason and curt common sense he was about to strike at a custom that is old, endearing, hallowed. Dipping a pen in ink, Il Duce dashed his scrawly autograph upon the document: a command to all Italians that they must not send to him any form of Christmas or New Year's greeting...
Lest persons anxious to gain even his disapproving notice should persist in sending greetings, Signor Mussolini informed the Fascist press that some 20,000 messages of this character which he received last year were "burned without being read...
...invitation to Signor Mussolini, requesting a personal conference with him, was the nub of a speech delivered, last week, to the Chamber of Deputies by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. Said he: "Speaking for myself and for my country, we are friends of Italy. ... Despite the friction which is said to exist, I am firmly convinced that an accord can be made between the two countries. . . . During the War, Signor Mussolini was one of the greatest helpers in the collaboration of his country with France and I never can forget it. I am asked why I do not confer with...
...Edward L. Doheny are among sitters who have sat for portraits to Howard Chandler Christy, deft and prolific creator of girl head covers for magazines. Last week Artist & Mrs. Christy reached Manhattan on the Italian Liner Conte Rosso (Red Count). Soon impertinent newsgatherers were asking: "Did you paint Mussolini?" Broad and smug came an answering smile from the left-handed little man who gets $1,700 for a magazine cover. Quietly he replied that among his luggage was a portrait for which Il Duce had posed three times. . . . Mrs. Christy, vivacious, cut in. Cried she: "Mussolini is the most marvelous...